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VILANOVA, Silvia L.; GARCIA, María B.  e  SENORINO, Orlanda. Conceptions about Learning: Design and Validation of a Questionnaire for Teaching Students. REDIE [online]. 2007, vol.9, n.2, pp.1-21. ISSN 1607-4041.

Teachers and teaching students have different teaching and learning conceptions from those which are formally included in university courses. Instruction is always based on some conception of learning and a large part of learning is influenced by the ways that teachers perceive the course, the subject and the expectations about the learners. These predominant ideas are mostly implicit and different from the explicit conceptions. The objective of this article is to present the adaptation and validation of an instrument to investigate the conceptions about the knowledge that university teaching students have, and to make a first analysis of the results obtained from its application. A cross-sectional study was conducted at the UNMDP, Mar del Plata, Argentina. An instrument consisting in 12 items was adapted from the Dilemas Questionnary of Martin, Mateos, Pérez-Echeverría, Pozo, Pecharromán, Martínez and Villalón and applied to 120 students. Statistical analysis included Cronbach's Alpha for testing reliability and Factorial Analysis for testing construct validity. The first results show a predominance of the interpretative theory of learning, based on a realistic epistemological conception.

Palavras-chave : Conceptions; learning; teaching students; questionnaire.